I am somewhere in the middle. I used to be real cheap before I married my wife but it is difficult to be a one man army of cheapness. A few old habits stick with me though, such as draining the hose into my car when fueling up, and fueling up late at night or early in the morning in the summertime. I work a 7/7 schedule and have to live at work for 7 days, on the night before I come home I wash all my clothes. Than the night before I go back to work, I pack up all my dirty outfits from the week home and wash them and use them at work. When my cell phone needs charging while at home, I take it out to my truck to charge it. I used to press the last little sliver of soap onto the new bar before I started using body wash, I had to start using body wash when I grew tired of having to bath with dish washing soap after finding that someone at work used my soap and left their "big boy hair" all over it, leaving me to throw it away and have to substitute. I cant stand the exhaust fan in the bathroom being on all the time, it should only stay on for the life of the dump, my wife thinks it needs to run 24/7. It dosent get cold enough around here to warrant saving bath water or anything like that. A few things I dont cheap out on is safety items for the cars, all tires are bought new, windsheild wipers bought new and changed in sets like the tires, as are brakes, head (or any) lights. I used to only buy Duracell batteries because they were one of the very, very few still made in the USA but even the majority of them are being made in China nowadays so screw it, Poloroid and Rayovacs now. I will buy myself a couple pairs of pants or shirts once or twice a year and wear clothes until I risk being arrested for indecent exposure. I also copy movies I rent, most of them come from the library. I lucked out as far as cable and water goes, it is included in the price of the rent, and they come once a month and change the smoke detector batteries and air condition filters.
